Advantages: cheap, good quality laptop with decent features, upgradable.
Disadvantages: no bluetooth. memory will need upgrading if moving on to Windows Vista

...the playback of dvd movies beautifully using the built in optical drive ( DVD Super Multi Double Layer Drive) Supporting DVD+R/RW DVDR/RW CDR/RW DVD+R Double Layer. there are two switches on the front of the laptop one to enable /disable wireless lan the other to enable/disable bluetooth both accompanied with an led ,although this model does not have bluetooth (was told by acer that it is a generic case for a variety of models. the laptop performs well with the 2ghz processor and 512mb memory handling all the applications i needed. the bundled acer empowering technology is quite useful as it also includes a program to free up unused ram. the touchpad is easy to get used to even i managed to get used to it very quickly and i have never had a laptop before. the built in web cam is pretty good for a 0.3 mega pixel camera. the built in card... Read review

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Advantages: Excellent Value and Great Features
Disadvantages: None Really - But Batteries not brilliant

.... There are two stero speakers on this front, and you can control the volume using short cut keys on the key board or by clicking on Volume control once logged in. Watching a DVD or TV gives pretty decent sound, especially considering it's a laptop and i don't know much about sound quality on Laptops as i've only used 2 (this being my 2nd!). ::::SPECIFICATIONS AND VALUE:::: The Price for this excellent laptop was just £365, including delivery, from EmpireDirect.co.uk. The Specifications are as follows: *AMD Turion 64 Mobile Technolgy MK-36 (2.9GHz, 512KB L2 Cache) *15.4" WXGA Acer Crystalbrite LCD (16ms) *Upto 256MB ATI Radeon Xpress 1100 *120GB HDD *DVD-Super Multi double layer (support DVD+R Double Layer/DVD+RW) *1GB DDR2 *802.11b/g wireless LAN The battery life only lasts around 2 hours depanding on what your doing. But if your doing... Read review

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Advantages: The features it comes with for such great alue for money
Disadvantages: no choice of colour nd possibly weight for some people

...microphone. I also have 120GB hard drive which I think is definite value for money! Other great features this laptop has to offer are; It has an Intel® Celeron® mobile processor with up to 1MB L2 cache, Mobile Intel® GL960 Express Chipset, S-ATA Hard Disk Drive with Acer DASP (Disk Anti-Shock Protection), DVD-Super Multi Double Layer drive, DVD/CD-RW combo drive, 5-in-1 card reader, supporting Secure Digital (SD), MultiMediaCard (MMC), Memory Stick® (MS), Memory Stick PRO™ (MS PRO), xD-Picture Card™ (xD) and built in speakers. If you get this laptop through the T-Mobile offer I did, like I said it costs £30pm with a t-mobile dongle to connect you wherever you want to be, whether it be the park, the car, on a boat, plane wherever! The dongle also comes with a t-mobile sim card which you put into the dongle which also gives you 1000... Read review

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Advantages: Supports most disk formats, fast, cheap
Disadvantages: I hate installing internal drives

...I store a lot of video on my computer and recently I have seen the remaining space come closer and closer to 0 so I decided to do something about it so I bought myself this drive. It is described as a Super Multi DVD Rewriter' and it certainly does that and a bit more. BASICS It is an internal drive which comes in three different colours (silver, black or your traditional computer beige) and it can write many different formats of disks. I got the black one as my computer has a black case but that's the only reason because no matter what the colour they are all the same technically. I got this for just under £30 which I was fairly happy with because I wanted a drive for under £40 which could read write and play DVDs. SPECIFICATIONS This next section is just for the speeds it writes at and the physical size, yes a bit boring... Read review

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Advantages: Dependable, cheap, exceed expectations!
Disadvantages: Not applicable.

... Ace laptops by Acer, I have got an acer aspire 5315 laptop with an intel celeron processor, 64MB graphics, 512MB RAM, 15.4'' screen, 80GB hdd, built in wireless and a dvd super multi re-writer drive. It is very well designed when it comes to style with its acer pebble design and it is very dependable. I am very pleased with my laptop and what makes this all way better in my opinion is the price that you can buy acer laptops at. My laptop for example only costs around £300 in the shops and still is good enough to withstand all the stuff i do on it ranging from browsing the web to programming software in visual basic or visual c++ and even has proved itself well capable of playing games well which many computer gamers would never expect of a computer with only 64mb graphics and a proccessor that is not dual or quad as you... Read review

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Advantages: Great screen Great keyboard Great make, Great quality
Disadvantages: Needs more RAM for the bigger games could do with bigger hard drive

...I got this laptop for Christmas and it has not broken down or crashed or done anything like that once yet. These are the laptops specs Intel Celeron M530 Santa Rosa Memory:1GB RAM Hard Drive: 80GB Hard Disk Drive Graphics Card: Mobile Intel GM960 Express chipset with Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 Optical Drive: DVD SuperMulti, CD/DVD reader/writer for all types of CD/DVD discs Connectivity: Wireless LAN B/G, 3 x USB 2.0 Ports Operating System: Windows Vista Basic: Additional Software: Acer Empowering Technology, Acer Arcade, Norton Internet Security Trial, Adobe Reader, NTI CD Maker Display Size: 15.4" WXGA TFT Display with Acer CrystalBrite technology It has A microphone socket, headphones socket, expandable memory slot, projector output socket, printer output socket and a built in microphone. It is powered... Read review

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Advantages: Latest technology and very cool aesthetics makes me want to eat this baby.
Disadvantages: Not everything is perfect. The Aspire 5920 comes as close as I have seen

...LCD pixels, next time you are in a P.C. shop, try pressing gently on the uncovered screen and see how easily they get displaced. (256MB nVidia GeForce 8600M) At last a DX10 graphics card, may not appear that important now but soon when all the new software comes out that will need it, you can smile at your mates as they are replacing there machines. (DVD-SuperMulti optical drive) Watch and burn too your hearts content. (802.11a/b/g/Draft N; Bluetooth) And if you forget to pay your phone bill you can roam the streets, find a hotspot and compose an apology letter with promise to pay and keep coming back till its sorted. (0.3 Mega pixel camera) Its nice to have a web cam with out all the cables and times when you don't expect to need one, pity it is relatively low resolution compared to the best. (Dolby Home Theater Virtual... Read review

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Advantages: PRICE,FEATURES AND PERFORMANCE
Disadvantages: BATTERY LIFE AND WEIGHT

...powernow technology (512kb l2 cache) graphics-ati radeon xpress 1100 chipset memory-1gb ddr2 533/667 mhz memory(upgradeable to 4gb) display-14.1" widescreen display WXGA hard drive- 80gb weight- 2.4kg input devices- 88 key keyboard,4 way scroll button, 4 easy launch buttons,WLAN 802.11 B/G WI-FI CERIFIED 56k modem.LAN i/o interface- pc ard slot type 11,5 in 1 card reader,3 x usb ports,headphones,speaker,line out jack with SPDIF support Ethernet port,modem port,DC jack for ac adapter power- 4000 mAh Li-ion battery pack optical drive- 8xdvd super multi-double layer drive,24x dvd/cd-rw combo drive Features display- while not the biggest of displays the image is crisp and clear and is big enough to have several windows open at the same time it does take a while to get used... Read review

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Advantages: Read/Write/Erase-CD-R/CD-RW/DVD+R/DVD+RW
Disadvantages: None

...The LG GSA 4167B Super-Multi is very good because it can read,write and erase data on all media formats.I own one and I don't have problems with it.Mine is three years old and but still works very good.The first years after I bought it the CD's/DVD's inserted in the LG drive were written and read with no scratch on the CD's/DVD's.Now,when it's three years old it leaves a few scratches in comparison to other products.It's easy to install and the product worths the price.If you want this LG for speed think again.You can buy a CD-RW or something but you won't find one with so much qualities.I strongly recomend you to buy it.... Read review

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Advantages: Bright and clear screen, Spacious keyboard, which is fast and resposnsive, convenient and clear (sometimes drags on some laptops) mouse pad, Comes with Windows xp, Very fast with a 2.6GHZ Processor, and 512MB!! Of RAM, DVD Rom is better than my DVD Playe
Disadvantages: Delicate (but which laptops arent?), Quite heavy @ around 9 pounds (nearing a stone), Only comes in the same old same old colour of metallic grey

...round, although a little heavy (see pros and cons), instruction manual is a waste of time (but I always seem to say that don’t I, all I can say is, if you can figure it out yourself, do it yourself), Manufacture support, as I have heard rumoured is quite good, but yet again cannot really quote on that, as I haven’t had any problems, and therefore not had to use the support. * Its Super Speedy Fast * I am sure it is. This baby has some of the most nifty, up to date gadgets to make sure it isn’t as slow as a snail. For example, its RAM capabilities weigh in at an astonishing 512 MB of DD RAM. Now if that’s not fast, I don’t know what is. I can remember upgrading my desktop (the one I am writing on now) from a 64 MB ram, to a 128 MB ram capability. And woh! What a difference that made. (This model, also has the slots available... Read review

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